ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Extract Text From PDF By Pages with PDF Extractor SDK

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ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Extract Text From PDF By Pages with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to extract text from PDF by pages with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to extract text from PDF by pages with PDF extractor SDK in C#

These source code samples are assembled by their programming language and functions they apply. ByteScout Data Extraction Suite can extract text from PDF by pages with PDF extractor SDK. It can be applied from C#. ByteScout Data Extraction Suite is the set that includes 3 SDK products for data extraction from PDF, scans, images and from spreadsheets: PDF Extractor SDK, Data Extraction SDK, Barcode Reader SDK.

Want to save time? You will save a lot of time on writing and testing code as you may just take the C# code from ByteScout Data Extraction Suite for extract text from PDF by pages with PDF extractor SDK below and use it in your application. Simply copy and paste in your C# project or application you and then run your app! Want to see how it works with your data then code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace ExtractTextByPages
{
	class Program
	{
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			// Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
			TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor();
			extractor.RegistrationName = "demo";
			extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo";

			// Load sample PDF document
			extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\sample2.pdf");

			// Get page count
			int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

			for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
			{
				string fileName = "page" + i + ".txt";
				
				// Save extracted page text to file
				extractor.SavePageTextToFile(i, fileName);
			}

			// Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();

			// Open first output file in default associated application
			ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(@".\page1.txt");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
		}
	}
}